4 x 36GB Raptor, RAID-0 Benchmark. (x64)

[garikfox]

IDE/RAID driver. x64 5.24

Not to shabby !


http://members.cox.net/garikfox/hd_bench.jpg

About the same as last time I ran 4x raptors, was in x32 OS though.

 

[cbuchach]

Nice--~220 MB/s xfer rate would be great.

 

[KoolDrew]

Who cares about synthetic benchmarks?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

People who are doing testing to see what kind of setups perform better, even if it is according to synthetic benchmarks. I asked about a week ago if someone could post some Raptor HD Tach 3 results, but no one gave... Thanks a lot. What kind of controller are you using? I'm having to decide now what setup to do, cause that is pretty impressive. I'm either going to add more disks to my RAID 5 array, or make me a 3-disk RAID 0 array with 36gb Raptors... Thanks for the info!
Tas.

 

[garikfox]

nVidia RAID-0 (nForce4 Chipset) 4 x WD360GD Raptor / 16k Stripe.

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Who cares about synthetic benchmarks?

With what else do we test our hardware with then ?

 

[John]

The CPU Utilization seems high on that synthetic bench.

 

[Zebo]

Looks to me like SCSI ultra 320 is the way to go?

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: John
The CPU Utilization seems high on that synthetic bench.

With one Raptor its 8%, This is REALLY good for nVIDIA RAID why ?

Cuz, 1 yr. ago i did the same now with a NF3 chipset the Utilization was 30%

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

4 disk RAID on the mobo? Wow, mobo chipsets have come a long way... Do you have read & write back cache enabled, or do you not have those options? Just checking... Can the chipset do RAID 5 as well, or just RAID 0?
Tas.

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Looks to me like SCSI ultra 320 is the way to go?

You have thousands of dollars ?

 

[John]

My single 74GB Raptor on the NF4 SATA controller is 4% using the same benchmark.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Zebo
Looks to me like SCSI ultra 320 is the way to go?

Looked at using SCSI... But for $600 for a 300gb drive, It would have costed me about $3k for my RAID setup, instead of $1k. And I can keep adding more. Although those PCI-X SCSI RAID controllers are damned sexy.
Tas.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: garikfox

Originally posted by: John
The CPU Utilization seems high on that synthetic bench.

With one Raptor its 8%, This is REALLY good for nVIDIA RAID why ?

Cuz, 1 yr. ago i did the same now with a NF3 chipset the Utilization was 30%

Well, wouldn't it have been on a slower CPU as well? But I did think that was interesting... My external controller was using like 4%...
Tas.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: garikfox

Originally posted by: Zebo
Looks to me like SCSI ultra 320 is the way to go?

You have thousands of dollars ?

Huh? 15000 rpm 36GB Drives are $230
http://www.newegg.com/OldVersion/app/Vi...Desc.asp?description=22-116-149&depa=0
and card is $150. that's cheaper than 4 raptors.

 

[Vegito]

Single drive

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/seagate.jpg

Model Number: ST373453LC
Capacity: 73 GB
Speed: 15K rpm
Seek time: 3.6 ms avg
Interface: Ultra320 SCSI

 

[garikfox]

Yeah u guyz are getting it, 8% x 2 is about what im at so im all good. Remeber its 2 x SATA to utilze 4 x HD.

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: forcesho
Single drive

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/seagate.jpg

Model Number: ST373453LC
Capacity: 73 GB
Speed: 15K rpm
Seek time: 3.6 ms avg
Interface: Ultra320 SCSI

WOW, am i seeing things or is that really good ?
wow SATA sux to me now, lol

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: garikfox

Originally posted by: Zebo
Looks to me like SCSI ultra 320 is the way to go?

You have thousands of dollars ?

Huh? 15000 rpm 36GB Drives are $230
http://www.newegg.com/OldVersion/app/Vi...Desc.asp?description=22-116-149&depa=0
and card is $150. that's cheaper than 4 raptors.

wowa, hmmm, lol

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: forcesho
Single drive

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/seagate.jpg

Model Number: ST373453LC
Capacity: 73 GB
Speed: 15K rpm
Seek time: 3.6 ms avg
Interface: Ultra320 SCSI

Woot and probably 0 CPU use if scsi to scsi.

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: forcesho
Single drive

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/forcesho/seagate.jpg

Model Number: ST373453LC
Capacity: 73 GB
Speed: 15K rpm
Seek time: 3.6 ms avg
Interface: Ultra320 SCSI

Woot and probably 0 CPU use if scsi to scsi.

Isnt that impossible ?

 

[keldysh]

Not shabby is about right!

SCSI RAID RULE ROOSTER!

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: keldysh
Not shabby is about right!

SCSI RAID RULE ROOSTER!

Wow, LoL, where all u SCSI peeps come from, lol

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: garikfox

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Who cares about synthetic benchmarks?

With what else do we test our hardware with then ?

He has a point. Raptors lose to DiamondMax 10s in Doom 3 loading tests. You can win all the 3D Marks in the world but suck in gaming performance and then what.....

 

[garikfox]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: garikfox

Originally posted by: KoolDrew
Who cares about synthetic benchmarks?

With what else do we test our hardware with then ?

He has a point. Raptors lose to DiamondMax 10s in Doom 3 loading tests. You can win all the 3D Marks in the world but suck in gaming performance and then what.....

So WD is lying when You buy a new raptor, when it says right on the box "World's Fastest hard Drive"